In this week’s Spectator | 26 November 2009

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Prepare for a lost decade. Fraser Nelson and Mark Bathgate believe that zombie banks and high unemployment look set to curse our economy as they did Japan’s. A Conservative government could avoid disaster, but only if it is prepared to face the painful reality.

A century ago, leading leftwing thinkers such as George Bernard Shaw subscribed to the vile pseudo-science of eugenics. Thought to have been a creed of the past, Dennis Sewell can see those perverse ideas influencing approaches to the welfare state today.

Real power in the Cameron Tory party rests not in the shadow Cabinet room but in the suite of offices that Cameron, Osborne and their advisers inhabit. Rather than restore Cabinet government, James Forsyth believes that Cameron intends to govern with GOATS and dragons.